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"Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned;
they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen."

"In his conversations with General Löwenhielm, Karl also stated that he did not at all lack taste for beautiful women, but that he held in control his sexual desires for fear that they would get out of control if unchecked, and that if he committed to something like that, it would be forever."

With the grace of God, King of The Svears, the Goths and Vends, Grand Duke of Finland, Duke of Scania, Estonia, Livonia, Karelia, Bremen, Verden, Stettin, Pomerania, Kassuben and Venden, Duke of Rügen, High Lord of Ingria and Wismar, Pfalz Count of the Rhine, in Bavaria, and the Jülich, Cleves and Duke of Berg. Lord Protector of Valdens, Spanheim, Mark and Ravensburg and Lord of Ravenstein.

"In April 2001, she began writing novels based on Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2, The Terminator, Ace Ventura and Independence Day."facepalm

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He/she was what, 38 at that time? Wha-?
Edit: "On March 17, 2008, she launched a webcomic called Sailor Ranko[3] based on her novels set in the Sailor Ranko universe created by Duncan Zillman and Kevin D. Hammel, based on characters from Sailor Moon and Ranma 1/2."

Maybe they simply like them. After all they find programming interesting enough to write games. Who knows what such an alien mind finds entertaining...

"Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned;
they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen."

You wanted to continue making Bard's Tale games. Why did you make Dragon Wars instead of Bard's Tale IV?

RH: EA wouldn't let us.

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The publishing deal we had with Bard's Tale was that even though we owned the code and the scenario and so forth, the name Bard's Tale was trademarked by Electronic Arts. So if we wanted to release a game called Bard's Tale, we had to pay a licensing fee to Electronic Arts. They wouldn't even let us do it.

They said, "Oh, you want to use the name? Publish through us." Push came to shove, and that's when Brian came to me and said, "Okay, we're calling it Dragon Wars." I looked him dead in the eye and said, "You do know there's no dragons in the story?" "Well, it's Dragon Wars now."

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So I had to come up with, at the last minute, a story that had a dragon in it, and put little quips every now and then that said there were dragon wars in the past. But since the game was only a month or two away from shipping, I couldn't re-do the actual ending of the game to make a battle of the dragons. So, it's a running joke that we shipped a game called Dragon Wars with hardly any dragon it.

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Some Brian Fargo bashing:

Speaking of him, what did you think of his Bard's Tale game?

RH: [Sticks finger down throat, makes gagging noises.] When he first described it to me -- he wanted to do a parody role-playing game. In my opinion, the Bard's Tale that Brian released was The Princess Bride. It even had Cary Elwes as the bard; the humor and everything was The Princess Bride and was not Bard's Tale.

What about we simplify the game so there's only one button. The one that pushes it faster wins.

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Preorder the DLC now and get exclusive content! Just when you thought you have seen the worst as a gamer.... Cover system, Regenerative Health, Quest Compass, Huge text fonts, Quick Time Events, Dialogue Wheel, Achievements, DLC, Minigames, "Press X on your Xbawks controller to backflip while shooting 360 degrees and dealing headshots"... it only gets worse.

What about we simplify the game so there's only one button. The one that pushes it faster wins.

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Preorder the DLC now and get exclusive content! Just when you thought you have seen the worst as a gamer.... Cover system, Regenerative Health, Quest Compass, Huge text fonts, Quick Time Events, Dialogue Wheel, Achievements, DLC, Minigames, "Press X on your Xbawks controller to backflip while shooting 360 degrees and dealing headshots"... it only gets worse.